In our session, which took place on Monday 19th of February, we worked alongside students studying architecture to explore sounding spaces. We were tasked with choosing a space around campus and explore it through listening, recording the interesting sounds that we heard. We had to use these sounds to create an art experience, a piece of art that reflects the listening experience. This could be through notating the sounds, a graphic score or even a written paragraph about your memories.
Our group chose to explore Exhibition Park, a local small park. There were lots of ongoing sounds that we could identify such as background traffic, animal sounds, and noise created by people in the park. We chose to stand in different areas of the park and record at the same time, showing how different the soundscape can be to each individual I have attached some of the recordings that we collected from out experience. Our next challenge was to create the art experience to go alongside the recordings, we chose to recreate our idea of unique listening by standing in different areas of the room in which we presented our piece in, to represent the different sounding locations. We encouraged people to walk around the room to get an idea of how the sounds change as you walk around the space.
To go alongside our audio recordings, we made a graphic score that again, represents the different listening experiences we found. It uses contour lines to symbolise the overlapping sounds and to show where sounds were loudest. This is the image attached to the blog post.
